intermediateJVM Internals & Memory
What is Code Cache and what happens when it fills up?
The Code Cache stores JIT-compiled native code and has a fixed max size. Once full, the JVM stops compiling new methods and falls back to interpretation, gradually degrading performance until you raise -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize.
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